What do you do with a kid that's dry heaving?

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I've always been told not to give any fluids until the kid hasn't barfed for an hour, but ds keeps heaving and at this point is just throwing up teeny amounts of mucous and bile.

What do I do?

[textbookcase]

Are you giving him water or pedialyte? I would.

ETA just an ounce or so at a time.

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Ok. I'll give him some

[textbookcase]

I hope he feels better, poor guy. Bonnie had a stomach bug yesterday but she's much better today.

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Dd has had diarrhea for two days so I guess (hope?) he has the same bug and it just manifested differently.

Dh and I had been asleep about 45 mins when he came and got us to clean up his barfsplosion all over his carpet.

[textbookcase]

Barfsplosions are the only time I'm happy that our whole house is ceramic tile.

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Dude. I wish we had all tile.

And we're out of carpet cleaner. :/

[lifesapeach]

Try a teaspoon of peach syrup from canned peaches in heavy syrup. Give every 15 minutes or so. It coats the stomach to stop it from spasming.

[jgb]

Once he's gone an hour or so without dry heaving, we will very slowly reintroduce fluids. typically room temperature water or gatorade. One tsp of liquid every 5 minutes. if they keep it down for an hour so or, we'll increase the amount to 2-3 tsps every 5 minutes. Our dr always told us it's the quantity or weight of liquid that reactivates the vomiting. if you give small enough doses, the stomach won't get any weight from the liquid, and the greater the chance of no vomiting, hence the absorption of the liquid, which is what you need to prevent dehydration.

I'm certainly no expert, but that's what we do. Then, after a few hours, one they ask for food, we give them 1/2 cracker. If he keeps that down for a while, we'll give the other half. Eventually we work up to chicken broth, jello, etc. An ER doctor once told us to make ramen noodles.